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Based on the sociology of development and the sociology of culture, this paper seeks to discuss the complex relationship between the quality of the dominant development model on the one hand, and the state of accumulation at the cultural capital scale, with its structures, processes and values on the other. How has the adoption of the global capitalist model over the past decades led to negative consequences at multiple and different levels, especially socio-cultural associated with the deterioration of the social conditions of the middle classes, which are the habitat of cultural capital with its three main components: the Embodied, the institutionalized as well as the Objectified, and the consequent socio-cultural problems of a structural type. The paper proposes an alternative development vision that devotes positive and effective cultural value systems that allow an equal socio-cultural accumulation on a more equitable basis, through which more vibrant, inclusive and sustainable development horizons are opened, taking into consideration the great importance of the cultural system, with all its components, in comprehensive development strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper aims to find the settlement strategy that the Israeli occupation uses to establish, build, and expand its network of settlements over time. This strategy is based on certain motives and uses certain mechanisms and means that were established through a set of plans and projects for the purpose of expropriating Palestinian land and displacing indigenous people. In addition, this strategy includes settling a large number of Israeli settlers on the land expropriated from the Palestinians. All this aims to help Israel achieve its settlement strategy and impose a new de facto situation. The research paper finds that the Israeli settlement policy is based on an already decided plan through which Israel attempts to dominate and control the strategically most important sites in the West Bank to serve its political, economic, and security interests. All this comes at the expense of the Palestinian population and its land. Therefore, the current study stresses the necessity of preparing a comprehensive strategy or plan to achieve sustainable development of the Palestinian lands in order to face dangers posed by the Israeli settlement expansion. It also encourages horizontal urban expansion of Palestinians instead of vertical urban expansion in order to confront Israeli expropriation and confiscation of Palestinian land. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Crime Prevention comprises strategies and measures that seek to reduce the risk of crimes occurring, and their potentially harmful effects on individuals and society, including fear of crime, by intervening to influence their multiple causes. Well-planned crime prevention strategies not only prevent crime and victimization but also contribute to sustainable development. Muhammad (PBUH) as a Prophet of Allah and Statesman, established the first Islamic State in Madinah. Madinah was a dynamic and working society that evolved Shariah rule that ensure peace and prosperity with a special focus on strategies of crime prevention. This paper essentially provides an in-depth understanding of these strategies and their relevance to Muslim societies of the post-modern era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In response to the vision of 2030 to preserve the environment, sustainable development, and with technological development, the approach to Assistive Technology (AT) has been an effective way to develop many skills of learners with special needs, starting from their early childhood; In a way that helps them to think, apply and actively participate in their environment. One of the most important ways of Utilizing (AT) tools is to use them in the various types of children’s literature (poetry, theater, and story…) directed to the child, including environmental and health concepts. Accordingly, this research is directed to the Critical Review; based on the Systematic Literature Review’s study of the most representative published scientific literature, which links Assistive Technology tools and children’s literature with the environmental and health implications of the various branches of children’s literature that contribute to the development of environmental and health awareness among children . To fill the research gap in this area, this paper will depend on the qualitative (descriptive) approach in collecting data from the previous research literature. In addition, collecting some data from part of two cases study, one from the down syndrome, and the other from the hearing and speech impaired; to investigate the main research question, namely :What is the effectiveness of Utilizing assistive technology tools in children’s literature to develop environmental and health awareness among children with special need? The most important findings of the current research were the success of using and investing assistive technology tools in presenting types of children's literature for children with special needs, and in providing them with environmental and health awareness through it and documenting their relationship with their environment in a positive way to preserve it, and to achieve sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper was prepared in order to provide an accurate analysis of the concept of sustainable development, which represents the common link between the environment, the economy and society, and this thought has increased in recent times until it spread within the work of institutions, governments and organizations, the challenge today is to research how to increase the awareness of the international community sustainable development and the opportunities and challenges it poses so that they possess the knowledge, skills and means to establish sustainable development that is effective and highly efficient. This study seeks to identify the most important indicators, goals and principles of sustainable development, its reality and the overall challenges that stand in the way of achieving this development in Tunisia, while presenting lessons learned and suggestions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Microfinance should be considered and planned as a major means of economic development at the national level and as a means of reducing poverty, bringing about real development, and raising the standard of living of the rural population, which is the main hypothesis that pointed to the need to monitor what is happening in the microfinance sector, in particular the role of the Local Development Fund, since it is mainly located within the countryside through local units in the provinces. This leads us to a question: What is the real impact of the microfinance services provided by the Local Development Fund in alleviating poverty and economic opportunities for clients? This paper aims to identify the role of microenterprises in alleviating rural poverty and to study the economic and social impacts of micro-enterprises on borrowers. The results show that the total volume of microfinance lending is 29.5 million L.E for 8,471 projects in 2009/10, but real prices show that there is a significant decline in the value of financing directed against current prices. The real funding volume was 9.7 million L.E in 2020/21. It turns out that there are moral differences between the sample members of the borrowers who own. It was found that there were significant differences between the sample members of micro- enterprises and non-borrower sample members of economic variables, with the calculated value of (T) estimated at 10.9, 8, 4.6, 5.8, and 1.8 per monthly income, savings, asset ownership, increased employment opportunities, and development of productive behavior respectively. This compares with the T-rated values where the T values calculated were greater than their scheduling counterparts, and those differences are in favor of borrowers from local development fund clients. About 69% of the sample of micro-entrepreneurs explained that there has been an improvement in their standard of living, as evidenced by the improved level of the food they receive and their interest in educating children and following up on the state's health care initiatives to maintain their health. The research recommends reviewing the distribution of funding to the provinces to target the poorest provinces, in addition to not repeating the same projects in the same places and diversifying activities, focusing on agricultural, rural, and environmental productive activities and moving away from consumer, and service activities that are not fully sustainable and do not increase real employment opportunities. Increasing the value of the loan where it is contrary to the value of microfinance described by the definition of the micro-project with the micro-financing strategy prepared by the state, and the financing rules announced by the Financial Supervisory Authority and funding provided by other official bodies in the country such as the SME Development Authority and micro, which contributes to the movement of customers from projects that meet their basic need to the level of effective microprojects, and thus the final impact of microfinance becomes useful, which It allows borrowers to break out of poverty and contribute significantly to sustainable economic and social development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Algeria, like the most countries of the world, made a lot of efforts to raise the standard of living of the population, and this by adopting development programs for which huge financial allocations were made. This research paper aims to study the extent of the impact of these programs on the reality of sustainable development in Algeria, and we have reached the conclusion that those plans during the period (2005-2019) have achieved many results on the economic and social level, but they failed to achieve all dimensions that achieve optimal exploitation resources to ensure their survival for future generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of engineering activities includes many examples of development that has led to environmental degradation. Hence, environmental ethics has a special place in engineering education. The present paper is in the field of engineering ethics, which focuses specifically on the teaching of environmental ethics. Also, the lack of a training course related to environmental ethics is in fact a missing link in the training of engineering experts, which needs special attention to solve future problems. In this regard, officials should think about creating a paradigm shift in the field of education in engineering, because it is related to the interaction between engineers and the environment. Engineers, compared to other single professions, are responsible for majority of the artifacts of the current world which we live in. The impact of an engineer's work on this constructed world has both benefits and risks, ranging from safety and health issues to environmental degradations. Consequently, education of environmental ethics should be considered as an essential skill for all engineering programs. For this purpose, this article proposes a syllabus for an environmental ethics course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Water is the main component of sustainable and integrated development in Egypt, and the horizontal expansion in agriculture is related to the state's ability to procure the water necessary for this expansion. The main problem with water resources is the imbalance between the increase in water demand and the availability of obtained quantity. Also agriculture occupies the largest share in the use of water resources and the economic return is not proportional with this use, where it consumes about 76.7% of the available water resources in 2017. Also, the study illustrate the current state of water resources, whether traditional and non-traditional water resources. Estimate the productive and economic efficiency of the water unit in agricultural use by estimating the productivity of m3 water, returning to m3 water. Study of some indicators of sustainable development of water resources. Therefore, the paper relied on the study of the water use efficiency index and the water stress index, also descriptive and quantitative analyses methods through estimating the annual growth rate, percentages and averages to achieve its goals using published and unpublished data in economic publications of Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Ministry of Planning, Follow-up and Administrative Reform and Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. Among the most important results obtained is that the annual growth rate of available water resources reached about 1%, while the annual growth rate of agricultural use of available water resources reached about 0.4% during the period (2005-2017). It was also found that sugar cane and rice crops have a relatively high water rating, and it was clarified that the crops of persistent alfalfa, aground alfalfa and full-ripe onions have a relatively high productivity advantage, and it was found that onion crops, ripe garlic, chickpeas and persistent alfalfa, are relatively highly economical compared to the rest of the crops in 2017. It was also found that the efficiency of water use reached its maximum in 2016 (about $ 3.9/m3), while it was found that water stress reached 117.5% in 2016, and it rose to about 120% in 2018, which greatly affects resource sustainability. This study recommend the necessity of spreading water awareness among the members of society to achieve the optimal use of the available water resources, also expansion of crops with high productivity and economic advantage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at the role of public reading spaces in activating and disseminating the information literacy and digital literacy through providing a strong and sustainable cultural information environment for all members of the society through activities such as seminars, lectures, workshops, forums and preparing publications, articles and other programs that contribute to the preparation of competencies Human and focus on the concept of active citizenship and positive It serves everyone regardless of their age and sex abilities and affiliations and ensure equal opportunities for all in access to knowledge and democratization of culture, on the other hand In view of the real and realistic vision of these cultural institutions and what they describe as social systems that contribute to the creation of a class of intellectuals capable of achieving development in a comprehensive and sustainable way through the introduction of the principle of culture, information and technology, These concepts and strategic approaches contribute to activating the role of these libraries as spaces for creativity, learning, education, and information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper treats the ancient city of Constantine to identify the elements and forms of built heritage in Arab-Muslim city through historical monuments and constructions reflecting the creative abilities of the technical, organizational, and cultural dimensions, to bequeath to future generations. The city is experiencing a regression of the built environment and the quality of urban life, due to natural and human factors. What are the characteristics of the ancient city? How can we protect it in the context of sustainable development? Can we conciliate the past with the present to explore the future? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to identify the areas of sustainable development that should be included in the textbooks of Prophetic Sayings (Hadeeth) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to determine the degree of availability, and to find out if there are statistically significant differences at (α≤0.05) in the degree of availability. The descriptive analytical method was used to analyze the whole study population. Cooper coefficient of stability, frequencies, and percentages were used to analyze the results and measure the degree of availability of these fields. Chi Square equation was also used to measure the differences between the availability of fields among grades. The social field was firstly ranked with a percentage of 78.16%, and a total of 433 frequencies, while the environmental field followed it with a percentage of 6.98% and a total of 37 frequencies. The paper showed that there were statistically significant differences in the inclusion in Chi equation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The planning of Industrial areas in new cities in Egypt has their special design standards stemming from the needs of the society, its economy and climate characteristics. However, it can effectively take advantage of the experiences of the developed countries in this field; either condition was similar or different to get to the environmental sustainability of these cities. As the Arab Republic of Egypt suffers from blurred vision in industrial zones and new urban planning, so paper deals with the study of industrial zones in the new Egyptian cities and their environmental problems and developing proposals for achieving the environmental sustainability In order to achieve the aim of the research was presented a different method of environmental assessment, such as matrix foundations and environmental standards and the African city index and index Dimension, to evaluate the industrial zones in the cities. And then try to access a methodology in the context of the most important determinants influencing the performance of the region as a whole and of energy, water, and transport emissions, air, waste and resources.. The research has come to the positives and negatives for the new cities, of the Arab Republic Egypt and put the necessary recommendations to take advantage of the positives and avoid the negatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Souk Okaz, or the Okaz Market, is located to the south-east of Taif, Saudi Arabia. It is a natural environment distinguished by the appearance of desert plants formations. The aim of this paper is to study the plant coverage of this area by analyzing the size of the plant coverage and then studying the plant status. Then, the paper has emphasize the importance of the plant coverage as it helps us achieve the goals of Sustainable Development in the area. The analytic-descriptive method has been used for the purpose of this study, where the researcher has used the data collected by the sensor, which is carried on the Landsat to calculate the size of the plant coverage area. In addition to that, the researcher has used a field study to categorize the plant species according to their status. The study has found out that the plant coverage is rather small and that there has been constant loss of plants in between the years 1990-2010. Furthermore, the plants found are of the driable type. The number of the species of the plants was found to be 31 belonging to 27 plant species and 16 plant types. In fact, the plant coverage in the area can be used in a better way to the serve the purposes of the sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Historical area in Jeddah has heritage buildings since the beginning of the Islamic era, and it is considered one of the most important cities which lies on the coast of the red sea. Recently it has been its accession to the world heritage list of UNECO in the June 21/2014 AD. The Historical area has been hit by several negative factors like: Neglect severe, encroachment, loss of identity, visual pollution, neglect of the site format, and no doubt that this factors make the Historical area and traditional environmental inability to sustainability, which requires from us to think about a holistic approach use it to develop the historical area, not looking at the problems partially. So ,The paper aims to develop an integrated strategy for the possibility of achieving sustainable development and quality of life in the historical area, Through the interest in addressing the environmental aspects, sustainability of the roads, sustainable building, the provision of appropriate green space and attention to the external surroundings of heritage buildings that reflect the value of heritage area , tourist importance not only for future generations but for non-citizens in all parts of the world which is that make it more sustainable. The research methodology: First: the inductive method: is the theoretical background to show the sustainability of the heritage cities and urban environmental aspects of treatment by a special state after the adoption of the historic area of Jeddah World Heritage area Second, the analytical method: through the documentation of the current status of World Heritage areas in Jeddah (Mazloum lane and part of the Sham lane) and an analysis of the features of architectural and urban character of the heritage area Third, the approach applied: consists in the possibility of applying an integrated strategy aimed at developing environmental heritage of Jeddah from the perspective of sustainability to achieve: (a heritage area of environment-friendly). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]